Reddit reviews Angelcare Baby Sound Monitor, White
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Full Color Digital Display – The easy-to-read screen on the Parent Unit clearly displays features such as Nursery Room Temperature and Sound LightsTemperature Display – The greatest concern for moms and dads is baby’s safety, sleeping alone in the nursery. Your Angelcare AC420 baby monitor displays the temperature in baby’s room on the Parent Unit so you can see if it is too warm or too cold.The Range of model AC420 is 820 ft in an open field.Portable & Rechargeable Parent Unit – Carry the Parent Unit with you from room to room for peace of mind.Range Indicator Up to 250 meters/820 feet (open field) between 80 meters/262 feet. and 100 meters/328 feet (indoor)Nursery Night Light– A gentle little glow to guide you when you walk into baby’s room.Crystal Clear Transmission– This system operates on the 927 MHz and 2.4 GHz frequency bandsTransmission from the Nursery Unit to the Parent Unit is made on927 MHz for North America/Ecuador/Oceania
I'm going to use a Foscam. It's like $60 dollars and as long as you change the administrator account/password it works amazingly.
I babysat my friends 6 month old a lot overnight and he wasn't a very good sleep through the night baby. I would feed him and make sure his diaper was changed, rock him a little to get him sleepy, and then set him in his crib. As soon as he hit the mattress he was cry. The monitor also helped to see if when he let out a small cry, if he was just stirring and would go back to sleep or if he was really awake.
I personally prefer the foscam because then you can get an app that will alert you if the sound level goes above a certain point on your cell phone. So you aren't strapped to a baby monitor and have to rely on it's battery life. It has fantastic low light vision too so when you turn the light off you can still see baby without any issue. It has a zoom/pan feature and you can talk over it as well. You can also record video too!
The foscam also has a feature that even if you aren't at home, you can still check on baby via the monitor on your app or on a website that the camera 'broadcasts' too. Don't worry you need a username/password to access this as well. And as long as you change that stuff to strong passwords, your camera won't get hacked.
If you don't want to use the 'broadcast' feature, the range on it is as long as you are within range of your wifi!
This is the one my friend had. My parents have it as well for home intrusion and I have one now for my nursery.
Edit: Although I've heard great things about the Anglecare Monitor. It's 50 bucks without the breathing pad. I really like the built in 'nightlight' on the baby unit.
Edit 2: The Philips Avent Monitor has great reviews and is just slightly more expensive at $75.
I've used this setup for about 4 years now:
They're not IP camera monitors, but the Angelcare monitors have a built in temperature sensor, complete with alerts for 'too hot' and 'too cold', which are user-adjustable. We've used these for the past 4 years and they've been great. $55 for that base model.
In our previous house the kid's rooms were frequently hotter or colder than we would have preferred due to restricted airflow in the ductwork and our thermostat being in an odd location. Eventually we had an HVAC company fix it but until then the temperature monitoring in our Angelcare monitor was very nice.
If you need a basic IP camera, get a cheap Foscam. Maybe $50-$60, wireless connections, easy to view from your phone or computer, from both inside your home network and remotely if you set up port-forwarding properly. Just make sure you change the default username and password. Most have two-way communication so you can talk to your kid through the camera using your phone, if you want. Even remotely. It's pretty neat.
We have the Levana Ayden for my first child and have been very happy with it. A lot of the features I thought we'd use, we don't, but the thing I love the most about this monitor is the quality of the picture even at night. We use a Dohms sound machine and it recognizes the sound it makes as background noise.
We purchased an Angelcare sound-only monitor recently, but I haven't decided if we will use it or the video monitor with the new babies.